Best Backdrop 2016: and the Frida goes to…

Eurovision Times Awards 2016 – Every year, the summer is the calm after the storm so it’s the perfect time to resume the “Eurovision Times Awards” to give prizes to the best in every category! After a week in this category, it’s time to announce the winner and hand out the Frida. So who will win?

“1944” was performed by Jamala. Representing Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, it was written and composed by Jamala herself. It won with 534 points. Nominated a record of ten times overall in ET Awards 2016 (the same as the Common Linnets in 2014 and Loïc Nottet in 2015), “Best Bacldrop” is its third so far! Congratulations!

You can click here to look at the full recommendations and nominations from last week’s article! There were 44 recommendations for 19 countries in the first round and 147 votes were cashed in an open poll, in exactly one week, among the 5 nominees. The complete detailed results will be announced once all polls are closed so in another week!

19 comments on “Best Backdrop 2016: and the Frida goes to…”

Ukraine has won a Frida in every year they took part in esc: two in 2013 (Best Female Vocals and Best Female Style) one in 2014 (Best Prop) and so far three in 2016 (Best Composition, Best Performance and Best Backdrop) still more nominations for Ukraine coming as well… if they win the four they’re nominated still in (Spokeperson, NF, Top 5 and Best Entry), they can tie Belgium 2015 of 7 in a year, and at 10 Fridas, they’d be one Frida short from Netherlands’ overall 11!

I don’t mean to be a Debby Downer or whatever, but Christina Grimmie has been shot and killed at a concert in Florida. I don’t know if any of you will know her as she never really got big internationally and wasn’t that much of a big deal outside of my age group. She was only 22 years old and was seen as a star of tomorrow by a lot of people in America. My thoughts are with her family.

Well deserved! Not only the tree of life, but the whole act was amazingly calculated and beautifully done, easily the best of the bunch! It enhanced this performance so much and gave it that extra push Jamala needed I think! Ukraine always have one of the best back drop imo, but this year they really killed it! <3

Off Topic: I have created this spreadsheets thats gonna be called (for now) ET-ESC 2016 haha😄 This is supposed to be a fun thing to see how we as a jury would have given our points this Eurovision song contest! All of the countries who performed are present, even the ones who failed to get to the final!
This will just be an experiment at first to see how many of you guys are interested in this (imo awesome) idea! Now almost all of you guys and me included have a top ten of this season so I thaught why not use it for something exciting😉

*If you’re interested in this please send an email with your points and avatar name/alias to schultze94@gmail.com.*

Update: 21 of you guys have voted (^.^ ^-^ ^.^) and this is the top ten so far:

**There will be no more updates after this one, simply because I dont wanna influence more future voters and I want it to be a little exciting for you guys in the end ;) The deadline will be at the end of june before the ETSC season begins and hopefully there will be an article of this contest where I tell you guys more of why I thaught this after-contest-ranking was a good, fun(awesome) and exciting idea**

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